Yumen backdrop
Yumen poster
Trailer
Yumen
7.0
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1h 5m
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2013
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Released
Overview
Set in a quasi-ghost town that once thrived with oil in China's arid northwest, Yumen is a haunting, fragmented tale of hungry souls, restless youth, a wandering artist and a lonely woman, all searching for human connection among the town's crumbling landscape. One part "ruin porn", one part "ghost story”, and entirely shot on 16mm, the film brings together performance art, narrative gesture, and social realism not only to play with convention and defy genre, but also to pay homage to a disappearing life-world and a fading medium.

Cast
Zhou Qian poster
Zhou Qian
Chen Xuehua poster
Chen Xuehua
Huang Xiang poster
Huang Xiang
Xu Ruotao poster
Xu Ruotao

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